United States v. Dickerson’s Empirical Analysis
873 F.2d 1181 · 1988
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably United States v. $19191000 in US Currency R (1994), United States v. $215,300 United States Currency (1989)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 19 U.S.C. § 1703 · 21 U.S.C. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Reid v. Georgia · 102 S. Ct. 969 - United States v. Security Industrial Bank
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by some credible evidence the probability that the money was in fact drug-related.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“$5,644,540.00 in U.S. Currency, 799 F.2d at 1362.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When initially seized, the cargo space's carpet was rolled or bunched up in the back of the plane. When the Customs agent arrived with Brutus six days later to search the plane, the carpet had been laid flat on the floor of the airplane.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.